Telescope Probes
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The Daily PRINCETONIAN Vol. XCVI. No. 142 Princeton,NJ., Friday, January 12, 1973 15 Cents New coed living code 'Educational' tax exemption skirts cohabitation law By DAVID ZIELENZIGER nets Tower $9,581 refund The Undergraduate Life circumvent the law," adding, "If By KAREN SULLIVAN Committee (ULC) unanimously any kids end up in court, we bear Tower Club, thanks to a 1971 approved an experimental program responsibility for letting it hap- state law exempting fraternal for coeducational living Wednesday pen." organizations "organized and that neitherviolates New Jerseylaw The ULC recommended three operated in substantial part for nor amends the current university immediate implementations for the charitable or educational pur- definition of the "living unit." new co-ed living policy: poses" from taxes, has been named Instead, the new policy relies Groups of four men and four tax-exempt and granted a $9,581 primarily on connecting existing women each will be able to draw refund on 1972 real estate taxes. suites to allow for large coed adjacent suites in the Spelman The refund and exemption from groups to live together but con- complex with doors constructed to real estate taxes were reluctantly tinues the current regulations that connect them. approved by the Princeton Borough bedrooms may be drawn solely by Groups of 12-15 persons will Council Tuesday night. members of the same sex. be permitted to draw single and Previously Tower had demon- While students of different sexes double rooms in existing Wilson strated to the approval of the still may not draw a room together College suites that will be con- Borough tax assessor that it uses under the policy, coeducational nected. Stone anticipates creating between 30 and 50 percent of its groups will be permitted to draw two living areas of this type, which budget for educational purposes, together in the new Spelman Halls, he likened to the Princeton Inn which qualifies it for tax-free status Wilson College and the coed Annex. under the new law. section of Holder Hall after the A "few pairs" of quads in Holder Although Tower will make a Office of Physical Planning has will be set aside on common lan- "voluntary contribution" of $878 to Tower educational facility: a study made alterations on existing suites. dings for coed groups to draw the Borough to cover such com- carrel "The changes were made under opposite each other. munity services as police and fire libraries, study carrels, a typing qualifies with either facilities or the terms of the existing In addition, the ULC recom- protection, the tax rebate will still and theses-binding facility, a programs," Tower President Paul guidelines," committee chairman mended investigation of further result in a $40 refund to Tower faculty fellow program, and the M. Yakulis '73 said yesterday, Steven D. Stone '74 said yesterday. coed living combinations for members this spring. awarding of ten scholarships each pointing out that the club's 15-year "Ifwe had revised theguidelines we connecting suites in other campus The cl"b argued that its joint year to students in the club. effort to promote educational might have exacerbated tensions." areas. activities with the educationally The Prospect Foundation activities had included a sub- Stone, who anticipates that some Assistant Dean of Student oriented Prospect Foundation supports Tower's educational stantial capital investment in 70 spaces will be marked under the Affairs Halcyone H. Bohen said qualified it for exemption. These activities with special donations physical remodeling of the club new policy for coeducational draw, yesterday that funds for the suite activities include the operation of received from the club's alumni. building. Tower had previously emphasized that it "does not try to (Continuedon page ten) reference and career guidance "No other club on the street paid more taxes than any other clubon Prospect Street because the improvements had raised its assessed tax value. Telescope probes interstellar elements This year the club will have to use part of its tax rebate to cover ByJOE SCHUBERT legal fees involved in getting the First results from Princeton's Such research, Spitzer explained, exemption, Yakulis said, but in orbiting space telescope, launched will eventually lead to a full future years the saving will be used by NASA from Cape Kennedy comprehension of the birth, life entirely to lessen members' board aboard the Copernicus satellite last cycle and death cycle of stars. bills. August to study interstellar gases, "The success ofthis (Copernicus) The club's tax exemption is valid cast doubt on current astro- program indicates that a much for three years, counting 1972, after physical theory concerning the life larger telescope would be which time the Borough will again cycle of the stars and the early technically feasible," Spitzer said. review its tax-free status. history of the universe. This larger instrument, with the The findings, presented additional capability of obtaining yesterday at a meeting of the pictures of distant galaxies and American Astronomical Society in stellar systems, "could provide vital Jones likely Las Cruces, N. M., indicate there information., .for answering are vast quantities of molecular questions on the size, origin and to be master hydrogen in all the denser, ob- destiny of the universe as a whole," scuringclouds of dust in the galaxy he said. and large amounts of deuterium in Previous theory had held that of Stevenson hydrogen molecules between the because hydrogen and deuterium ByBOBRUXIN stars. are basic elements for fusion—the Associate Professor of Chemistry The successful performance of process by which the heavier, more Maitland Jones is the most likely the Copernicus, according to complex elements are formed in person to succeed politics professor astrophysical sciences department stars—the stars should have used Gerald Garvey BS '62 as master of chairman Lyman Spitzer Jr., up much of these elements. Stevenson Hall, according to "opens up a new field ofresearch," Instead, according to Jerry F. sources close to the selection the goal of which is "an un- Drake, a member of the research process. derstanding of how gas between the staff in astrophysical sciences, the However, neither Jones, who stars condenses to form new stars findings show that "one of about according to one committee and stellar systems and how dying every 200 molecules formed in these member was the choice of the stars eject heavier elements back denser clouds contains deuterium." student-facultyselection committee Artist's conception of P.U. satellite into the gas." The ultraviolet telescope, the "by popular demand," nor the largest ever launched into space, administration has made a final was developed and is being decision. Assembly approves ticket subsidy operated by six Princeton Jones said yesterday afternoon astronomers under the leadership that "I certainly haven't said yes," of Spitzer and professor of but sources said an official an- astrophysical sciences John B. nouncement is expected by early for April 'Mothers' rock concert Rogerson. next week. By CORKY PLEWS vote, a number of Assembly activities on campus to make them It is equipped to detect in- The chemistry professor met with andLISA SIEGMAN members questioned the propriety cheaper for a lot of people," terstellar atoms and molecules with President Bowen Wednesday, president The Undergraduate Assembly and equitability of the subsidy. Carples said. a sensitivity a thousand times assistant to the Robert K. (UGA) voted 21-8 last night to "Why should the UGA subsidize The Campus Fund Drive is greater than is possible from the Durkee '69 said. know, confirm a Projects Board ticket this concert if it's going to be a sell- splitting costs of the concert with ground. "As far as I no decision made," subsidy for the April 27 Frank out anyway?" Preston M. Wolin '73 MeCarter and will take half the Drake reported that the denser has been Durkee said. Zappa and the Mothers concert. asked. profits. interstellar clouds contain more President Bowen, who will make out Thesubsidy provides a subsidy of Charles E. Kolb '73 suggested The cost of hiring Zappa's group than 10 per cent of their hydrogen the final appointment, was of $2 per ticket per student for the that the subsidy would underwrite is $9,000, according to W. W. gas composition in molecular form, town and unavailable for comment yesterday. concert, lowering prices to between the activities of some students at Lockwood, a MeCarter a form that can only be detected If $1 and $3.50. The lowered prices the expense of all. "It seems to me representative present at last from telescopes in outer space. Jones takes the job, he will be will be in effect only during a thatthe way to help students would night's meeting. Lockwood said Rogerson, focusing his analysis the first physical scientist to serve special two-week Princeton be to give them their money and let that additional expenses, including on gas between the denser clouds, as master of an undergraduate facility. students-only sale beginning at 10 them spend it as they see fit," he advertising, usually average $3,000 reported that "it is apparently more a.m. at the MeCarter said. to $4,000 for a concert. rarefied than previously assumed. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Monday Research fellow from 1967-1969 Theatre box office. But UGA President Jeffrey L. The total amount of the Projects "The amount of gas present and has published 42 articles and for the concert Carples '73 replied that the sub- Board subsidy will depend upon the appears to be less than a third of Advertising will books. be limited to the Princeton area, sidy, which he described as an volume of student ticket sales, the smallest values previously Jones the according to UGA secretary and experimental prelude to a possible while ticket purchases will be proposed," Rogerson said.